Pakistan fires missiles following accusations of India’s attacks on military outlets – DW – May 10, 2025

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Command Authority — the top body of civilian and military officials responsible for security decisions, including those related to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

The Pakistani armed forces said they used medium-range Al-Fatah missiles in their retaliatory attack on air bases and a missile storage facility in India.

According to state broadcaster PTV, the missiles had been symbolically given the names of Pakistani children killed during Indian strikes in the past week before launch.

Local residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday morning described hearing loud explosions in the cities of Srinagar and Jammu, as well as the garrison town of Udhampur, which Pakistan‘s military claimed to have targeted in what it called retaliatory strikes.

“[The] explosions that we are hearing today are different from the ones we heard the last two nights during drone attacks,” Sheesh Paul Vaid, the region’s former top police official and a resident of Jammu, told the Associated Press (AP), adding: “It looks like a war here.”

He said it appeared army sites were being targeted since the explosions were heard from areas that have military bases.

In Srinagar, resident Mohammed Yasin said he heard at least two explosions. “Our home shook and windows rattled,” he told AP.